Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 2001, 4:35 AM EDT for Charlotte County, Florida. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2001, 4:35 AM EDT (08:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2001, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charlotte County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:41 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Punta Gorda, FL | A weak F0 tornado sporadically touched down near the intersection of State Road 765 and 768, south southeast of Punta Gorda. The tornado continued north where it sporadically touched down and toppled trees, power lines and a few sheds before it crossed into D |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 100 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 526 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
751 WFUS52 KTBW 140835 TORTBW FLC015-140900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 435 AM EDT FRI SEP 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN FLORIDA. * UNTIL 500 AM EDT. * AT 435 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTH OF PUNTA GORDA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT... WESTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY. PUNTA GORDA BY 500 AM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM MOVE INTO THE INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. COVER YOUR HEAD AND BODY WITH PILLOWS OR BLANKETS. TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW MOVE TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES. LEAVE VEHICLES AND GET INTO A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. $$ LAT...LON 2677 8209 2677 8198 2700 8196 2700 8212 25 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Lee | 25 min |
| Sep 14, 4:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Lee | 30 min |
| Sep 14, 4:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 33 min |
| Sep 14, 5:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 37 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.